It just feels good! I would go about barefoot, but the floors are cold in the winter. Summertime is coming, then it will be of with the socks and shoes! Although I don't walk about outdoors that way, lots of burrs, and nasty stuff in the yard like ticks. Here we have to do the tick inspection routine after being in the garden. There are a LOT of deer that come down the hill to drink in the stream during summer, and they pass through the yard. I had to fence off my garden plot to keep them from eating my veggies We also have wild turkeys, quail, skunks (yuck), squirrels and many other birds here in the woods.